Machine for packing matches.



M. PARIDON.

MACHINE FOR PACKING MATCHES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1915.

1,168,906., Patenfed Jan. 18, 1916.

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TIIB COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPII :0, WASHINGTON, D. c.

a'rnn'r e MICHAEL PARIDON, OF OSWEGO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINDIS, A CORPORATIQN OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOB PACKING MATCHES.

Application filed May 17, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MIC AEL Panrnon, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city and county of Oswego, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Packing Matches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for packing matches in boxes, and has especial relation to means for compacting and leveling the matches within the box trays.

The present invention is in the nature of an attachment to a match-packing machine employing the match straightening and positioning mechanism set out in my pending application Serial No. 867,336, filed October 19, 1914:, wherein a pressure head and two spaced swinging members are so related to each other and to the path of the filled match trays, that in the downward movement of the head the said members are yieldingly swung inward against the sides of an interposed filled tray so as to push inward the endwise projecting matches, if any, and immediately thereafter the head bears yieldingly upon the underlying matches (or upon the protection strip if such strip be applied) and tends to compact them within the tray.

According to the preferred form of embodiment of my invention I arrange on the packing machine in cooperative relation to the positioning mechanism above referred to, a reciprocative member, which when the filled box leaves the said mechanism is caused to bear upon the protectionstrip with an ironing action in a manner to smooth the strip and to level and compact still more effectually the matches within the box tray, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a plan of a part of a match packing machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a partial side ele-, vation of the machine. Fig. 3 is a section, enlarged, as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. at is a section, as on the line l-4l of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a part of the bed or table upon which the intermittently movable tray-conveyer 11 is supported and guided, which conveyer in the form illustrated comprises an endless chain of links provided with holders 15 for the box trays 16.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. is, rare.

Serial No. 28,560.

18 designates a vertically-reciprocable T-shaped plunger the vertical member of I conveyer and constitutes a presser head.

The arms 19 are provided with lateral grooves or channels 21 in which are slidlngly and rotatably seated studs or rollers 22 on crank arms 23 formed on a pair of depending blades 2 1-. These blades are pivotally supported in properly spaced position on a standard 27 rising from the table, so that the blades are movable laterally toward and from the path of the box trays. Theblades are provided with angularly disposed arms 28 coupled by a bow spring 29, which tends normally to effect movement of the depending blades toward each other. The vertical body of the plunger extends below the table and is pivotally connected by means of a link 30 to a lever 31 which is timely actuated to raise and lower the plunger and thus effect, through the cooperation of the spring and associated connections, the periodical movements of the blades in respect to the sides of the proximate tray, whereby any matches whose ends may be projecting outward beyond the sides of the tray are pushed into the tray, all as fully set forth in the application above referred to.

The present improvement is more particularly designed for use ina packing machine such as described in Patent No. 1,016, 1 .36 dated February 6, 1912, in which a protection strip, as S, is imposed on the matches within the tray, the positioningmechanism above mentioned acting in that relation upon the matches after the said strip has been applied. The improvement in its preferred form comprises an elongated ironing foot 32 having a convex lower surface which is constructed and operated to act upon the protection strip after the filled box has been advanced from the end positioning mechanism. This foot is formed on or secured to a slotted body 83 carried by the free end of a reciprocative arm: 34. The opposite end of this arm is rotatably fitted to the crank-shaped or eccentric end of a power-driven shaft 35 which, in the present instance, is the shaft of a suitablythe matches Within the tray, thereby facili tating the subsequent operation of applying the usual shuck or cover to the tray.

' The ironing foot is moved upon and from the protection strip While the underlying tray is at rest, correspondingly With the operation of the end positioning members on the matches of the immediately preceding tray. Accordingly one member of an angular arm 37 is secured to one of the arms l9'of the plunger 18, and the other member freely enters the slot or opening of the body 33. In the upward stroke of the plunger the arm impinges against the opposed roof of the slot and thus raises the body and its ironing foot, and in the descent of the plunger the arm 37 permits the body andfoot to drop by gravity upon the underlying protection strip and remain thereon for a brief interval of time While the foot is reciprocating as above described.

l Vithout limiting myself to the specific details of construction shown and described, What I claim is-.- I

1. In a machine for packing matches, the combination With means for feeding filled box-trays having protection strips, of an ironing member arranged to bear upon the protection strips of the successive trays, and means for reciprocating said member upon the strips. 7

2. In a machine for packing matches, the combination With means for feeding filled box-trays having protection strips, of an ironing member, means for raising and lOW- ering said member from and upon the protection strips of the filled trays, and means for reciprocating said member longitudinally of the protection strips.

3. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding filled box-trays having protection strips, of an ironing member, means for horizontally reciprocating the same, a vertically-recipro- 'catingmember, and a. loose connection between said element and the ironing member.

4.. In a machine for packing matches, the combination With means for feeding filled box-trays having protection strips, of a slotted body having an ironing foot thereon, means for horizontally reciprocating said body, a rertically-reciprocating element, and an actuating arm extending fromsaid element into the slot of said body.

Signed at the city and county of Oswego and State of New York thisldth day of May A. I). 1915.

MICHAEL PARIDON.

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